Coutet Cuvee Madame Vintage:1995 Following a relatively warm winter

Following a relatively warm winter

I would like more fruit for it comes across a little too austere

apple and acacia

The drinking window may be conservative—closure and winemaking could put this at 40 years with ease

Coutet Cuvee Madame Vintage:1995 Following a relatively warm winterThe 1995 Coutet Cuve Madame has a less flamboyant bouquet than other vintages, quite tight at first with dried honey, pain dpices, barley sugar and wax resin aromas. The palate is well balanced with a viscous, waxy textured opening, quite spicy in style, very well balanced and fresh, quite mineral driven, with that Manuka honey lingering long on the finish. Excellent. (145gm L residual sugar, 3. 5gm L total acidity, 13. 5% alcohol). Neal Martin